[Axiom-developer] Asq rewritten

[Waldek Hebisch]

There were many plans to rewrite various parts of Axiom.  I decided
to actually rewrite one part: the asq program :).

Actually my reasons for rewrite were:

1) Old asq was broken by trivial changes to database format (like
   turning off compression, or pretty printing databases), the
   new one should be more resistant.
2) Old asq was longish, verbose and used very unusal coding style.
3) Some people (Bill Page ???) hoped to use asq as a base for
   browser access to Axiom databases, the new one hopefully is
   easier to adapt/change than the old one.

Since the output of old asq was rather irregular, I have taken
liberty to change output formatting and command line options.
I hope that such change will cause no troubles.

Since the old asq documentation mostly duplicated daase.lisp.pamphlet,
I have written also completly new (short) documentation.

P.S.  I just commited the new asq to wh-sandbox.

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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